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Identità (Isola Sacra)

Isola Sacra's territory morphology is mainly flat, without visual reference points. This, with the incoherent urban pattern and the presence of free uncoltivated areas that turn into potential decline areas while waiting for a  function, contribute to form an ambiguous and anonymous image. On the other hand a potential wealthis represented by the variety of environmental systems left in the form of tracks.
The tree rows are an essantial element: they distinguish street sections for a hierarchy of routes, making them recognizable and ideally strenghten the feeling of a green system that goes through the residential zone and links the new green areas of interstitial voids.
The void areas turn out to be transition areas, when instead they represent a huge potentiality: the vegetation goes inside the territory through the canals and uses the voids linking them one another and creating new green surfaces, accessible and high-quality public spaces flowing into the central axis, peak of the Agriculture fair.
The space in between becomes the real protagonist, no longer source of detachment but essential tool, able to unify and to keep united, more like a completion tool. The objective is to create a network of spaces, requalified through detailed interventions, to become urban gardens, commercial activities related to the fair or just places to enjoy the products of the short distribution chain, circulated by a big market on the main axis.
By taking photographs and then drawing on them, the project came out in the form of light modular elements, diffused throughout the streets to occupy space without really occupying it. The modules can take on different configurations, adapting to time and position changes, they can combine horizontally to form a plate (the market  area in this case, that can even become a "market street" if the modules follow the side of the roads). 


Lightness and agility are essential to the project, it makes assembly easier, and since their form is influenced by trees, they can be made of wood  or bamboo (better if is waste material).
From the hourglass-shaped modules you can obtain infinite variations keeping the same style and materials, according to the needs in every different space, for example they can become a tower or a bridge.

The tower-observatory 's external pattern thickens as it goes up, leading the look inside the splits through the wood, to encourage awareness of the territory through its panoramic vision. The same principle runs the design of other modules as the bridge element or the porch, that articulate on the opposite canal side, creating spatial and conceptual as well as planning continuity .
Identità (Isola Sacra)
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Identità (Isola Sacra)

lo scopo di questo progetto è dare al territorio frammentato di isola sacra (alle porte di Roma) una propria identità, attraverso interventi di r Read More

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